The behavior of Players in a Party.

Definition of Clique: a small group of people, with shared interests or other features in common, who spend time together and do not readily allow others to join them. (IE. a premade team in League of legends)

We all like, and even love playing games with our friends. Especially games where you have to all work together in order to win. More so the games where if you communicate very well, you do much better and things fall into place. We are social creatures after all. There is something about winning and working together, when everybody does their job correctly and in sync with you that pleases us as humans.

It is also grounds to help cultivate a hostile environment for the people outside of the clique.

As far as I know, individuals who are reported are considered an individual even if they are not in a group. I do not believe this is an accurate way to punish players who are griefing together in a party. Now, most of my experience comes from 3v3s with premades that just don't like the third person, and when you don't have another random two players with you it is pretty stacked, you can't really have an enjoyable time. Sure you can mute the people but that isn't a solution to the problem now is it?

The problem is that when you get people grouped up by their very own choice, two things will happen.

A. They will play together, synergize, communicate, and just be an all around effective team because they are a TEAM, I hope you understand exactly what I mean by this. B. They will not do so hot, or see mistakes, generally they will react to some sort of poor gameplay of somebody (Usually themselves) in a manner that is taken out on the individuals that are not part of that Clique (premade)

Either way, it is extremely rare for parties to accept the other teammates into the team. Please understand, nobody likes criticism, even though we all require it. As humans, we do not want to look at ourselves and see problems, we do not want to see that we make mistakes. Deep down we all want to be perfect. In a game like this, communication is essential and you will need to communicate not just with pings but with the chat box, and you must do so in such a way that most mature people will understand. I have seen quite commonly in my matches this just unravel.

Do you know how easy it is to convince the people you are speaking too through skype that the reason something bad happened was the fault of somebody not in the call? You are all pretty much friends in there, you do not want to hurt feelings or save face. The natural instinct for all people is to go for deniability, you want to be perfect after all. So naturally you will want to pick apart somebody who has no connection to you, especially somebody you can't see or hear. They are just words and obviously they are wrong, you have 1, 2, or 3 people backing you up, they are reinforcing in your mind that you are not wrong, the other person is wrong. They are bad. They are making all these mistakes and it is costing you something.

I think if Riot does look at the number of reports from people who are not in a party, to the people who are in a party, you will see their aggression, their griefing to be overwhelmingly more common, stronger, longer, and have heavier repercussions. Examples of this are most common

1. Letting the random die. Basically, you have a chance to make a play but you don't like that person so you do all you can to irritate them which is make them not play for a bit, letting the wolves get them.
2. Mass AFK. You don't like what the other people are doing? Well you can certainly protest that by Boycotting the game.
3. Mass flame attacks. This should be simple
4. Setting up the other players for reports in All chat, while probably doing everything else above.

I do really do believe being in a party makes it more likely, and more aggressive. I feel there should be stronger punishment for party members who enable each other against a person(s).

It certainly is not the most common thing, but I don't think it doesn't happen enough for it to be uncommon. Anything to help the community be a salt free environment would be appreciated.